Games like FFXI are really linear. For example, in FFXI you just run around (no jumping or anything), target things, and click a button to activate them. Every thing is really menu based and feels very uninteractive. EVE felt very similar to FFXI, but in terms of context it actually made sense (you’re flying a ship, not walking around), which actually flipped it around and made if feel interactive, kind of like a flight simulator, only more like a futuristic space ship simulator.

Games like WoW are a bit of a step up. Controlling your character in WoW feels very fluid as if I have full control. I can jump and buttons like sitting down and attacking are right at my fingertips and aren’t accessed through a menu.

I don’t know much about CoH, but I’m assuming it’s more like WoW. For example, I’m assuming super jump doesn’t require you to select the ability then choose where to jump to. I’m assuming you just press whichever button to jump and you jump and fully control it.

I wish more games would make use of this. We’re no longer on a 2D plane fighting random enemies anymore. Things like the whole Havok physics and the ability to pick up and move things in EC4: Oblivion make me giddy with pleasure. If only we could see more “virtual reality” things inspired in more MMOs.

Example: I am going down 3 floors on the stairs, and I decide to do some tricks (Video Game inspired) and as I land my 5th conseutive trick I look up and its the CEO of Design in front of me, I just had to act as if what I was doing was completely normal and keep movin :P …but that’s whats fun about being me, nutty encounters like that :P hahah!